http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Hadassa Gerber, Chief Research Officer at the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB), a trade association representing the US local broadcast industry. She shares with us the results of several studies that the organization has conducted over the past few m...
Jan 05, 2021•41 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. Earlier this year, OTT delivery company, Syncbak, teamed with local broadcasting company, Gray Television, to launch VUit, a free, ad-supported TV service, focused on live, local content. In this wide-ranging interview, which took place just after VUit announced a partnership wi...
Jan 05, 2021•34 min
http://tvtoshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Joanna Drews, Co-Founder and CEO, and Mike Bologna, President and CRO, of HyphaMetrics, a cross-platform measurement company that will employ a proprietary panel of 5,000 households, and offer clients what it describes as “a suite of data streams providing ...
Jan 05, 2021•36 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Ricky Ray Butler, CEO of BEN and Rob Gabel, EVP and General Manager of TubeBuddy. TubeBuddy, which provides a platform for YouTube channel management and audience development, was recently acquired by BEN, an AI-powered influencer marketing company, and is ...
Jan 05, 2021•29 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features John Hane, President of BitPath, a company that was founded by major broadcasters to drive the roll-out of ATSC 3.0, and that is building out a dedicated broadcast network to power new wireless apps and services (currently, around 400 stations are part of t...
Jan 05, 2021•41 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside welcomes Chris Paquette, Co-Founder and CEO of DeepIntent—winner of DigiDay’s “Best Buy-Side Programmatic Platform,” competing against leading companies such as Xandr, Verizon Media, Cognitiv, Liftoff and Smadex. Conceived by former Memorial Sloan Kettering data scientists, DeepIntent con...
Jan 05, 2021•19 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Greg Diefenbach, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Alliant Content, the company behind the documentary-focused niche VOD service, MagellanTV. Among other things, Diefenbach explains the reasons behind the founding of the service, why he believes there is ...
Jan 04, 2021•33 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Radha Subramanyam, Chief Research and Analytics Officer at CBS Corp. and President of CBS Vision. Among other things, she describes her role at CBS, explains why content franchises are so important to the network, discusses new viewing behaviors that have e...
Dec 04, 2020•37 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. The Friday Fireside is proud to welcome Katherine Pond, VP of Business Development for VIZIO. Katherine describes how rapidly VIZIO is moving into the role of an entertainment company, with a base of 13 million—and growing—SmartCast Homes. She also gives us a sneak preview of VIZIO’s “Unwrap the Magic of SmartCast,” its holiday hub featuring a collectio...
Dec 04, 2020•17 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. No matter how you voted in the 2020 presidential election, you need to watch this week’s Fireside featuring Evan Tracey, SVP of National Media Research Planning & Placement (one of the primary media organizations for the Trump campaign). In a frank and far-reaching conversation, Evan opines on media effectiveness on both sides of the 2020 presidenti...
Dec 04, 2020•26 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Hank Frecon, CEO of contextual video advertising and commerce company, Source Digital. Among other things, he explains the company’s core offerings, describes its work in enabling monetization of video content via interactivity, and outlines its future plans. http://tvotshow.com/televisionation...
Dec 04, 2020•35 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Jacob Vaus and Eli Weiss, the Chapman University students behind Calamity AI, a YouTube channel devoted to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Among other things, Vaus and Weiss explain how the channel actually employs AI in the generation of its content, describe some of the video...
Dec 04, 2020•28 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Howard Blumenthal, who among other things created and produced the famous PBS children’s show, “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego.” Blumenthal, who is currently a Senior Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses his work at QUBE, the legendary interactive TV service launched in C...
Nov 18, 2020•37 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Michael Collette, former CEO of Deductive (now Corporate SVP of Data Science at MarketCast), and Tom Weiss, former CTO and Chief Data Scientist at Deductive (now Chief Data Scientist at MarketCast), discussing Deductive’s recent acquisition by MasterCast. Deductive (previously known as Dativa) ...
Nov 18, 2020•36 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. If you’re in the television business, or anywhere in the world for that matter, you know Julie Simon and her “relatively” famous aunt Carly. In a funny and charming 30-minute Friday Fireside, Julie shares family memories, including how her grandfather Richard Simon (of Simon and Schuster) introduced paperback books ...
Nov 09, 2020•36 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Vikrant Mathur, Co-Founder of Future Today, a prominent player in the kids-and-family AVOD and FAST space. The company, which operates over 700 channels and holds rights to over 200,000 titles, is best known for its HappyKids OTT network, which it says has seen year-over-year user and watch-tim...
Nov 09, 2020•40 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Jon Niermann, Co-Founder and CEO of Loop Media, and Chris Thun, VP of Product at TiVo, discussing their companies’ new partnership. The partnership sees Loop, a streaming company that specializes in premium short-form video, delivering 18 of its music video...
Nov 09, 2020•27 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Our Friday Fireside guest this week is Clint Stinchcomb, President and CEO of CuriositySteam, “the premium destination for true, pure factual entertainment.” Clint clears up the mystery of the recent SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation) investment in CuriosityStream with an enterprise value of $312 million (and an equity value of $512 million)...
Nov 09, 2020•17 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Max Kalehoff, VP of Marketing and Growth at Realeyes ( http://realeyesit.com ), a company that uses emotion AI and facial coding to measure consumers’ response to and engagement with video content. Kalehoff discusses new research from Realeyes into the efficacy of video advertising for the 2020...
Nov 09, 2020•21 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Field Garthwaite, Co-Founder and CEO of video intelligence platform provider, Iris.tv. Among other things, he discusses the growth of connected TV advertising, explains why that medium offers advertisers better ROI than traditional television, and identifie...
Nov 09, 2020•22 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Freetouch Founder and CEO, Darren David, who responded to the Covid-19 Pandemic by developing and launching an exceptionally simple solution to help museums, public venues, retail stores, malls, airports and others safely reopen, by turning any smartphone into a navigation device for public and shared touchscreens. A...
Nov 09, 2020•16 min
ITVT/TVOT - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Jamie Power, Chief Data Officer and COO of Advanced TV at Cadent. In a very interesting conversation, Jamie explains Cadent’s work in identity resolution (which, frankly, sounds like something involving superheroes and their secret identities), cross-platform and multi-device advertising strategies, and t...
Oct 20, 2020•19 min
ITVT/TVOT ( http://tvotshow.com/televisionation) is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Nate Houghteling, Co-Founder and Executive Producer at digital content studio, Portal A, discussing producing in the aged of Covid-19, working with celebrities and athletes to build media properties, the evolution of the YouTube creator, and more. (Note: O...
Oct 20, 2020•28 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Susan C. Bennett, the original voice of SIRI. Among other things, she recounts her life before SIRI (which included stints as a backup singer for Roy Orbison and Burt Bacharach), relates how she ended up becoming SIRI’s voice, describes the process of recording that voice, shares her thoughts o...
Oct 20, 2020•27 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Greg Jarvis, EVP and GM of Fincons Group, an Italian company which offers consulting and engineering services to support technological and digital transition, and which expanded its operations to the US in 2017. Among other things, Jarvis discusses how the company is applying its extensive expe...
Oct 20, 2020•34 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Pascal Metral, VP of Legal Affairs and Head of Anti-Piracy Intelligence, Investigations and Litigation at NAGRA. Among other things, he explains what pirate subscription IPTV services are, enumerates the key components of the pirate subscription IPTV ecosystem, outlines the risks these services...
Oct 20, 2020•31 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Our guest this week on the Friday Fireside is Virginia Juliano, Founder and CEO of Cobblecord—a free website and app that helps consumers “cobble together” their perfect combination of online streaming services to get the most out of streaming and cut the cable cord. Using its patented process, CobbleCord easily guides individuals through the ever-growi...
Oct 10, 2020•17 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. The episode features a wide-ranging discussion with advanced-TV industry expert, Simon Applebaum—host of the long-running podcast, “Tomorrow Will Be Televised”—in which he shares his thoughts on such topics as Amazon’s Luna gaming service, the 2020 Emmy Awards, the future of movie theaters, recent announcements from...
Oct 10, 2020•35 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. The episode features Danielle Cravatt, SVP of Client Partnerships at adtech company, VDX.tv, arguing among other things that brands can build long-term loyalty and trust during a global pandemic by localizing their messaging and acting in the interest of the public as a whole. (Note: Our first virtual show, TVOT LIV...
Oct 06, 2020•42 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Cathy Jamison, Corporate VP of Sales Marketing at Sinclair Broadcast Group. Reporting to Sinclair’s President of Broadcast, Rob Weisbord, Cathy launched a new department responsible for strategy and execution of industry-leading omnichannel marketing materials for over 1,000 sales reps. Emphasis on NFL, Collegiate, N...
Oct 06, 2020•16 min
